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TGIF! show me a beautiful darkside coin!

DoogyDoogy Posts: 4,508 ✭
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If you're like me, you never grow tired of looking at beautiful coin designs. Show us one you really like, whether you own it or not.

Have a great Friday, and a better weekend!


Doug

not my coin (I wish!), but i find it to be a beauty!

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  • bosoxbosox Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Numismatic author & owner of the Uncommon Cents collections. 2011 Fred Bowman award winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson award winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca award winner.

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  • rwyarmchrwyarmch Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭✭
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    British Historical Medals https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOBxKspf6DVpvjgXptTKSr_tZcyeWIRJRBX7ZklmSP59IKhtiAkgF2NB0-Vxyhz1w?key=OGdSRXJtZWdsb2VodmNEdWJ4VF9jY01YdmJtRTlB
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    A few 1887 Jubes

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    ....one of George III

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    .... and, a bit for your wedding luck!! image

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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    How about some gold. All owned by me


    1998 Nagano 10000K Winter olympics
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    PCGS MS-69 DMPL Y-124 15th Anniversary of Enthronement
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    1930 Poland 25 Gulden Danzig NGC MS-65
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    1912 Bulgaria 20l NGC PF-67
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    1927 Albania 20 Fr NGC MS-64
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    My Medals collection

    FOR SALE Items
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,455 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>1927 Albania 20 Fr NGC MS-64 >>


    I want that coin!!!! Absolutely fantastic. Wanna sell? image

    DPOTD-3
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    Don
  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Not yet Don, I'm still in the collecting of gold modeimage In time though, I will put you on the list. I think I sniped cosmic out of this one. After looking at other NGC coins graded like this IMHO it is undergraded. It is an intregal part of the LION collectionimage
    My Medals collection

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Silly French couldn't even get the numeral "4" right. image

    Gotta admit, they have some nice designs, though, even the ones like this that never got into production.

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,737 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    Oh ... wow ... loot at that reverse .... image

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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
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    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • RickeRicke Posts: 677 ✭
    here's a couple that I think apply.

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  • WWWWWW Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭
    My latest. I like the reverse with it's intricate design and bold strike.

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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    I drool all over my keyboard every time I see those Victorians of Mac's imageimageimage

    Here's my absolute favorite. I don't own this one ... YET !!!
    Someday I hope to be able to find and purchase this beauty. *sigh*

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    My OmniCoin Collection
    My BankNoteBank Collection
    Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Nice coin, WWW. My favorite darkside reverse. I'm glad it found a good new home. image
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • rwyarmchrwyarmch Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭✭
    Awesome halfpenny, Mac!!
    British Historical Medals https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOBxKspf6DVpvjgXptTKSr_tZcyeWIRJRBX7ZklmSP59IKhtiAkgF2NB0-Vxyhz1w?key=OGdSRXJtZWdsb2VodmNEdWJ4VF9jY01YdmJtRTlB
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  • LynchLynch Posts: 299
    Not mine but I wish it was.

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  • LynchLynch Posts: 299
    Also not mine (but I wish it was)....

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    "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play" – Joseph Goebbels

    "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - William Colby, former CIA director
  • LynchLynch Posts: 299
    Another dream coin...

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    And yet another dream coin...

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    "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play" – Joseph Goebbels

    "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - William Colby, former CIA director
  • LynchLynch Posts: 299
    Finally, one that I do own...

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    "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play" – Joseph Goebbels

    "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - William Colby, former CIA director
  • JZraritiesJZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    a little Raw BEAUTY. Looks like she's crying as the Hellenistic empire will be gone in a few years...

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    Thessaly - Larissa - 400/370 BC. Silver Drachm

    Obverse: Head of the nymph Larissa facing slightly right.
    Reverse: LARISAI, Horse grazing left.
  • JZraritiesJZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    The Larissa empire gives way to the Modern Look...

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    LARISSA, written Larisa on ancient coins and inscriptions, is near the site of the Homeric Argissa. It appears in early times, when Thessaly was mainly governed by a few aristocratic families, as an important city under the rule of the Aleuadae, whose authority extended over the whole district of Pelasgiotis. This powerful family possessed for many generations before 369 B.C. the privilege of furnishing the Tagus, or generalissimo, of the combined Thessalian forces. The principal-rivals of the Aleuadae were the Scopadac of Crannon, the remains of which (called by the Turks Old Larissa) are about 14 m. to the SW. The inhabitants sided with Athens during the Peloponnesian War, and during the Roman invasion their city was of considerable importance. Since the 5th.century it has been the scat of an archbishop, who has now fifteen suifragans. Larissa was the headquarters of Ali Pasha during the Greek War of Independence, and of the crown prince Constantine during the Greco-Turkish War; the flight of the Greek army from this place to Pharsala took place on the 23rd of April 1897. Notices of some ancient inscriptions found at Larissa are given by Miller in Mlanges philologiques (Paris, i88o~ ; several sepulchral reliefs were found in the neighborhood in 1882. A few traces of the ancient acropolis and theatre are still visible.

    OBV: NYMPH LARISSA FACING SLIGHTLY RIGHT. REV: HORSE GRAZING RIGHT, GREEK INSCRIPTION ABOVE, ROW OF DOTS BELOW.
    ATTRIBUTION: SEAR 2124v, LORBER 62.2a (PLATE COIN).
  • JZraritiesJZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    Which face do you like better?

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  • LynchLynch Posts: 299


    << <i>The Larissa empire gives way to the Modern Look...

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    That is utterly magnificent. image
    "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play" – Joseph Goebbels

    "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - William Colby, former CIA director
  • DoogyDoogy Posts: 4,508 ✭


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    << <i>The Larissa empire gives way to the Modern Look...

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    That is utterly magnificent. image >>




    i'll say! that thing makes the modern "high relief" coins look silly!


    Doug
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭
    This one has a pug pedigree:

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    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504

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  • LynchLynch Posts: 299


    << <i>This one has a pug pedigree >>




    I had never heard of a "pug pedigree" before now and had to look it up on the net to find out what it is.

    If you're saying that your coin is a dog, then I think that maybe you're being a bit harsh, but I have no desire to fight with you about it. imageimage
    "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play" – Joseph Goebbels

    "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - William Colby, former CIA director
  • LynchLynch Posts: 299


    << <i>Which face do you like better?

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    I like the Modern Look a bit better, although both of them are very nice indeed.
    "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play" – Joseph Goebbels

    "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - William Colby, former CIA director
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